Comparative Research On The Influence Of 5-6 Years Old Children’s Narrative Ability By Independent Reading And Shared Reading

Narrative ability plays the central role of the development of children’s cognitive,emotion and sociality.It’s the important criterion for appraising children’s language ability.The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of different reading situations on the development of narrative ability of children,investigate the different effects of different reading methods of children’s narrative ability.The study hopes to provide some references for teachers to organize reading activities.The study conducted an educational experiment,5-6 years old children were selected as the subjects.According to the pretest,they were divided into two homogeneous groups: the independent reading group and the shared reading group.The researcher used eight picture books as reading materials for eight weeks to investigate the effects of independent reading and shared reading on children’s narrative ability.The research found that the shared reading can promote the narrative ability development of5-6 years old children more effectively than the independent reading.It was found that the children in the shared reading group scored significantly higher in story comprehension,story retelling and story creation than the children in the independent reading group.On the understanding of story,the children in the shared reading group had better understanding of the characters,the process of the story,the conflicts between the characters,the solution of the main problems and the following possibility.In story retelling,the children in the shared reading group did better than the children in the independent reading group in narrative structure,narrative order and narrative evaluation.In the aspect of story creation,the children in the shared reading group had better narrative mood,time and vocabulary expression and sentence structure.In the last part of the study,some educational suggestions are put forward: taking into account the differences of children’s narrative ability when putting reading materials;encouraging children to share their thoughts when reading;providing opportunities for children to choose their own reading ways;creating a loose and free language environment.